Hello fellow members of SAAABE! I am sending you three great news items for your reading and listening pleasure. SAAABE has been working hard for you and our students. Gracias. Rosa Zapata, SAAABE Member ------------------------------------------------------------
Dual Language education in Bexar County in the Express-News - September 22, 2019
Did you all hear the great interview on TPR "The Source” today? You can hear it on this link. Great job, Claudia Trevino Garcia and Hugo Hernandez and reporter Alia Malik
National Chicano Student Walkouts Conference University of Texas - San Antonio Downtown Campus Our Lady of the Lake University November 20-23, 2019
Dear Mexican American Studies educator and advocate The National Chicano Students Walkout Conference invites students from elementary, middle and high schools to create exhibits in writing and through all art modes and media acknowledging the courageous actions of students fifty years ago. This is an opportunity to have students interpret those actions and also relate them to the context and conditions students experience today. Teachers can use this theme to connect to happenings that have been important in the history of Mexican Americans and also encourage students to explore issues of justice and equity. Student products will be exhibited on walls and in exhibit areas. The language arts, social studies, media and fine arts TEKS, as currently identified by MAS teachers, legitimize these activities in the classroom in elementary through secondary instruction. Some Information about the walkouts is attached. More will be sent out in August. Brief narrative: The Chicano movement of the 60s and 70s was energized and in key ways represented by the public-school walkouts by students. Some received national attention: Edcouch Elsa, Edgewood, Crystal City while others received minimal local interest from the media. All the protests spotlighted the injustices and inequities in the schools. Students and families marched to proclaim that these institutions that were so important to the economic and social future of La Raza were racist and segregated. From low expectations of students to the forbidding of the use of Spanish, the list of grievances was very similar from the gulf coast of south Texas to the schools in East LA. All the southwestern states experienced the walkouts, marches and other public forms of protest. The National Chicano Students Walkout Conference has created a student project that will involve elementary and secondary students. With the assistance and encouragement of teachers and other mentors the conference is inviting works of art in all forms: written, painted, composed, recorded and videotaped. To assist teachers in developing some lessons to introduce the walkouts of 50 years ago, a compilation of print media and online links to resources is attached. The resources will increase as the current research continues and will be available on the conference site. https://chicanohistorytx.org/ Contact Aurelio Montemayor, member of the conference coordination team, for more information. Aurelio.montemayor@idra.org
